A child was killed in a fire at a mobile home in Londonderry on Thursday, fire officials said.

Officials said a mother and two children were in the Norwich Place home when the fire started.

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A witness said firefighters ran out of the home in Whispering Pines Mobile Home Park carrying the child and gave the child to an ambulance crew, but fire officials confirmed the child did not survive. The mother and an infant were able to escape.

Witness James Herman was driving by when he saw smoke coming from one of the trailer homes, prompting him to call 911.

"As I have them on the phone, I'm screaming in the house, 'Is anyone there? Is anyone there?'" Herman said.

Herman used a snow shovel to break a window and save the child.

"I just took one breath of air, and it was just so thick and black. I fell backwards and started puking, and then it just engulfed," Herman said.

Witnesses Gino Bonanno and his girlfriend, Brenda Bayer, heard screams at the home and ran to help.

"We just heard screams, and I ran across street," Bonanno said. "I saw a guy smash a window with a plastic shovel. He was trying to grab a baby through the window but couldn't grab the baby. Then the mother tried, and she couldn't get in the window, and then my girlfriend ran over and grabbed the mom and pulled her from the window."

Bonanno said there was too much smoke and fire to go into the home. He said the mother was desperate as she tried to reach back inside the window for the other child.

"She was half in the window," he said. "Her arms were bloody from the glass around the window. It was just scary."

Bayer said the mother was yelling about her child as she was pulled away from the burning home.

"'My baby’s there, my baby!'" Bayer said. "She just, she was instantly going into shock, like she couldn't believe she wasn't there with her kid."

Investigators said the fire was caused by unattended food on the kitchen stove.

"It appears to be one of those untimely, unattended fires that involve a cooking item," said New Hampshire State Fire Marshal Bill Degnan.